Paper bag with ticket retaining and mouth closing means



Dec. 13, 1955 G. w. POPPE 2,726,804

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Dec. 13, 1955 G. w. PoPPE 2,723,804

PAPER BAG WITH TICKET RETAINING AND MOUTH CLOSING MEANS Filed April 29, 1952 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 J 5: INVEN/ToR.

Ii GEORGE W, PUPPE 11M f M1.

ATIURNEY'S.

United States Patent O PAPER BAG WVITH TICKET RETAINING AND MOUTH CLOSING MANS George W. Poppe, Brooklyn, N. Y., assigner to Equitable Paper Bag Co., Inc., Long Island City, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application April 29, 1952, Serial No. 284,962

2 Claims. (Cl. 229-77) This invention relates to paper bags by which is meant any paper container of a nature suitable for holding merchandise and the like.

One object is to provide a paper bag which may be made substantially as inexpensively as is usual but which provides for fastening a ticket to the bag without using a separate attaching means such as a pin and the like. The term ticket is intended to mean any form of memorandum such as is usually folded into strip-like form and attached to the bags, this heretofore having usually been done by the use of a common pin. Another object is to provide a bag without substantially increasing its manufacturing costs which permits its mouth to be fastened closed by the use of a strip of scrap paper or the like such as is usually present in retail stores and the like in the form of waste usually thrown away.

Another object of the invention is to provide a paper container assembly in which merchandise is transported from a stock room to a shipping room at a mail-order house. The invention provides a paper bag into which an article is placed in the stockroom. The order ticket is then attached to the bag to identify the marchandise and the customer when the bag, with hundreds of other bags, reaches the shipping room. Instead of pinning the ticket to the bag, and pinning the bag. closed, as has been the practice in the prior art, this invention provides spaced groups of slits through the bag and ap and into which the ticket is inserted after folding to lock the flap of the bag closed and at the same time to secure the ticket to the bag by the friction of the sides of the slits so that no pinning is necessary.

Specific examples of the invention are illustrated by the accompanying drawings in which:

Fig. 1 is a front View of a bag incorporating the invention;

Fig. 2 is a back View of the bag;

Fig. 3 is a cross section taken on the line 3 3 in Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a cross section taken on the line 4 4 in Fig. l;

Fig. 5 is a front view of a modification;

Fig. 6 is a back View of the modification;

Fig. 7 is a diagonal section taken on the line 7 7 in Fig. 5;

Fig. 8 is a cross section taken on the line 8 8 in Fig. 5; and

Fig. 9 is a cross section taken on the line 9 9 in Fig. 5.

Referring to Figures l through 4, the illustrated bag has mutually opposed front and rear walls 1 and 2 respectively. These walls define a mouth at the top of the bag and one of the walls, shown as the back wall 2, has a ap 3 extending from it and which is foldable downwardly relative thereto. The corners of the walls 1 and 2 are rectangular and the ap 3 is shown folded downwardly through the mouth of the bag so that it is interposed between the walls 1 and 2. This ap may also be foldable so that it overlies the wall 1 on the outside of the latter, either of these two possible arrangements being possible.

Near to the mouth of the bag, slightly below the top edges of the walls 1 and 2, two pairs of slits 4 are formed through both of the walls 1 and 2 and through the downwardly folded ap 3, the slits extending longitudinally to the bag. These slits are relatively short longitudinally respecting the bag and the pairs are spaced apart transversely to the bag with the slits of each pair relatively close together. All of the slits are parallel to each other. The slits in the flap are positioned to register with the wall slits when the ap is folded down as illustrated.

There are various merchandising methods which require a ticket to be attached to a bag, and in many instances there are obvious reasons for desiring to fasten a bag mouth closed. The described slits are able to cope with both problems without increasing the` cost of the bag to any substantial degree and for practical purposes not at all.

In the case of a ticket it is folded into a strip having a width slightly narrower than the slits 4 and this ticket 5 is then woven through these slits in any convenient manner but preferably by a simple alternate Weaving effect progressively from oney slit to another as is illustrated by the drawings. Although not shown, the ends of the ticket.

may be bent towards each other so as to prevent longitudinal slipping of the ticket through the slits 4 and in some instances it may be desirable to use only one slit located about where each pair is illustrated so as to provide but two interspaced slits.

The opposing walls 1 and 2 are constructed so that the bag, folds flatly together at its mouth, the resulting flap mouth obviously being fastened closed by the strip-like ticket 5 while also retaining the ticket to the bag.

When it is not necessary to fasten a ticket to the bag it may still be desirable to fasten the bag mouth closed without resorting to the more expensive type of paper bag provided with interlocking members. With the new bag the strip 5 need not be a ticket but may comprise scrap pieces of paper of which the ordinary merchandising establishment usually has a plentiful supply in the form of waste. Using an appropriate paper cutter this scrap may be severed' into strip form and at noV cost, excepting for the smallv labor cost of forming the strips, it is possible to provide closed bags having their mouths fastened together, but using low-cost bags of the usual constructions which ordinarily have no provision for preventing loss of merchandise.

In the modification shown by Figures 5 through 7 the same parts are used excepting that the interspaced slits, here numeraled 4a, are diagonally formed as single slits replacing the previous pairs, and with one slit entirely free from the ap by being located very close to one edge of the bag. Furthermore, the bag ap, here numeraled 3a, is severed along the line 6 into two sections so that only one section is fastened closed by the ticket or strip 5. In this case the fastened section of the flap is shown on the outside of the bag with the other section tucked inside of the bag in the fashion of the flap arrangement previously described.

The ap 3a has diagonal side edges 7 and the slits 4a are made parallel to this side edge with the two slits being parallel to each other and adequately spaced apart to perform the previously described functions. In this case the strip or ticket 5 is shown with its ends bent towards each other to retain the strip-like member in place.

Otherwise than described, any of the bags disclosed may be made like any ordinary paper bag and by using conventional automatic paper bag machines with their attendant low production costs. All that is necessary is to provide an appropriate die roller for making the slits 4 or 4a or their equivalents. The result, at no material increase in the manufacturing costs of the bag, is a bag which may retain a ticket to the bag while closing its mouth l or which may useinexpensive scrap paper stripsto fasten tclosed the mouth of the bag.

I claim: l. A paper container assembly in which merchandise is transported from a stock room to a shipping room, said y assembly including a paper bag having a front panel, a

back panel and a iap secured 'to the Vupper end of the back Vpanel and extending across the upper end of the front Y points at the upper and lower ends of each slit, a paper ticket for memorandum data relating to the contents of the bag and the customer to whom the merchandise is to be shipped, said paper ticket being folded on itself to reduce its width and increase its stiffness, and the folded ticket extending from one side of the bag through one grouprof slits, across the other side of the bag to the Y other group of slits and through said other group of slits to the first side of the bag again, the folded width of the ticket being less than the up-and-down distancev between the opposite ends of the slits but being sufficient to distort the sides of the slits in opposite directions toward the front and back'of the bag at the points of juncture of the confrontingV edges of the slits so that the resilience of the paper presses Vthe edge portions of the slits firmly against the ticket to hold it securely in assembled relation with the bag.

Y 2. A merchandise container comprising a paper bag openrat one end and having a front panel, a back panel, and a flap connected to the back panel along a fold line in position to bend across the open end of the bag and downwardly along the upper part of the front panel to close the bag, the panels and ap having openings therethrough comprising groups of slits 'Lu the paper extending generally parallel to one another and downwardlyaway from the fold line and spaced from the fold line and generally normal thereto, each ofthe slits having confronting edges severedY directly from one another without removal of intervening material, two of the slits being in the back panel and spaced from one another and extending downwardly and two other slits being in the front panel at locations and extending in directions corresponding to the slits in the back panel and registering with the corresponding slits which are in the back panel, the ap also having two Y slits therein at locations `and extending in Vdirections to register with the slits in the front and back panels when the ap is folded down into position to close the bag, and

locking means free and independent of the bag for holding the ap in closed position, said means comprising a strip of paper material which extends across a portion of the l width of the back panel and from the back of the bag through all of the slits ofY one group, and which extends acrossy the outside surface of the front panel and then through all of the slits of the other group to and across a portion of the outside surface ofthe back panel whereby Y both ends of each group of registeringslits are accessible Y to an operator inserting the strip through the slits when the bag is closed, the strip having a width, throughout at least a portion of its length, substantially equal to the height of the slits between the points of juncure of the confronting faces of the slits at the opposite ends of said slits whereby resilience of the paper displaced in oppo. site directions on opposite sides of the juncture points holds the edge portions of the slits, near the opposite ends of said slits, incontact with the strip to hold the strip against longitudinal movement and resulting displacement from the slits.

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